Syntax
resource
ldap_search ( resource link_identifier, string base_dn, string filter [, array attributes [, int attrsonly [, int sizelimit [, int timelimit [, int deref]]]]] )
Returns a search result identifier or FALSE on error.
ldap_search() performs the search for a
specified filter on the directory with the scope of
LDAP_SCOPE_SUBTREE. This is equivalent to searching the entire
directory. base_dn specifies the base DN
for the directory.
There is an optional fourth parameter, that can be added to
restrict the attributes and values returned by the server to just
those required. This is much more efficient than the default
action (which is to return all attributes and their associated
values). The use of the fourth parameter should therefore be
considered good practice.
The fourth parameter is a standard PHP string array of the
required attributes, e.g. array("mail", "sn", "cn") Note that the
"dn" is always returned irrespective of which attributes types
are requested.
Note too that some directory server hosts will be configured to
return no more than a preset number of entries. If this occurs,
the server will indicate that it has only returned a partial
results set. This occurs also if the sixth parameter
sizelimit has been used to limit the count
of fetched entries.
The fifth parameter attrsonly should be
set to 1 if only attribute types are wanted.
If set to 0 both attributes types and attribute values are fetched
which is the default behaviour.
With the sixth parameter sizelimit it is
possible to limit the count of entries fetched.
Setting this to 0 means no limit.
NOTE: This parameter can NOT override server-side preset sizelimit.
You can set it lower though.
The seventh parameter timelimit sets the number
of seconds how long is spend on the search.
Setting this to 0 means no limit.
NOTE: This parameter can NOT override server-side preset timelimit.
You can set it lower though.
The eighth parameter deref specifies how aliases
should be handled during the search. It can be one of the following:
LDAP_DEREF_NEVER - (default) aliases are never dereferenced.
LDAP_DEREF_SEARCHING - aliases should be dereferenced during the search
but not when locating the base object of the search.
LDAP_DEREF_FINDING - aliases should be dereferenced when
locating the base object but not during the search.
LDAP_DEREF_ALWAYS - aliases should be dereferenced always.
Note:
These optional parameters were added in 4.0.2:
attrsonly,
sizelimit,
timelimit,
deref.
The search filter can be simple or advanced, using boolean
operators in the format described in the LDAP documentation (see
the Netscape Directory SDK
for full information on filters).
The example below retrieves the organizational unit, surname,
given name and email address for all people in "My Company" where
the surname or given name contains the substring $person. This
example uses a boolean filter to tell the server to look for
information in more than one attribute.
Example 1. LDAP search
<?php
// $ds is a valid link identifier for a directory server
// $person is all or part of a person's name, eg "Jo"
$dn = "o=My Company, c=US";
$filter="(|(sn=$person*)(givenname=$person*))";
$justthese = array("ou", "sn", "givenname", "mail");
$sr=ldap_search($ds, $dn, $filter, $justthese);
$info = ldap_get_entries($ds, $sr);
echo $info["count"]." entries returned\n";
?>
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From 4.0.5 on it's also possible to do parallel searches. To do this
you use an array of link identifiers, rather than a single identifier,
as the first argument. If you don't want the same base DN and the
same filter for all the searches, you can also use an array of base DNs
and/or an array of filters. Those arrays must be of the same size as
the link identifier array since the first entries of the arrays are
used for one search, the second entries are used for another, and so
on. When doing parallel searches an array of search result
identifiers is returned, except in case of error, then the entry
corresponding to the search will be FALSE. This is very much like
the value normally returned, except that a result identifier is always
returned when a search was made. There are some rare cases where the
normal search returns FALSE while the parallel search returns an
identifier.